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18.09.2024 Pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator BRENDA EARLE STOKES presents MOTHERHOOD, a collection of ten original compositions that share the journey of motherhood with songs that explore identity, fear, expectations, body image, friendship, and growth. read more 18.09.2024 With a career spanning nearly two decades, two-time JUNO Award winner Diana Panton has established herself as one of the brightest lights on the international jazz scene, praised by listeners, musicians, and critics alike for her ethereal vocals, exceptional song selection, and emotive nuance. Diana is pleased to announce the October 25 release of her eleventh album, soft winds and roses. read more 18.09.2024 Sanctuary, out October 11, 2024 via Sunnyside Records, features trumpeters Jason Palmer and Billy Buss, saxophonist Edmar Colón, cellist Naseem Alatrash, bassist Greg Loughman and drummer Mike Connors Album Release Concerts at Regattabar in Cambridge on Friday, September 27 & Birdland Jazz Club in NYC on Monday, October 14 read more 18.09.2024 In 2021, Carlos Mena, bassist and composer based in New York City, created, and produced a musical album with the concept of blending music from the Ecuadorian Sierra with influences from jazz and classical music in a trio format of piano, bass, drums with guest vocals. read more 18.09.2024 In his career, David Bailis has played guitar in a wide variety of settings, from funk to hip hop. His own projects showcase his playing and compositions in jazz groups where he is best able to stretch out and display his appealing musical personality. read more 18.09.2024 As the Supreme Court begins its fall term, Jeff Lederer, the acclaimed multi-reedist and jazz and improvised music polyglot, is back with Guilty!!!, his new album due out October 7, 2024 via his own label, little (i) music. The timing is no coincidence: Guilty!!! — whose full title repeats the verdict 34 times — is a timely and pointed attack on lying political discourse, using digital samples of dishonest political speech and bi-textuality as a basis for new compositions. read more 18.09.2024 Jazz Crawl is Back at the 2024 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, and the August Wilson African American Cultural Center has added Jazz Around Town to give music lovers multiple options to support live music. Special thanks to sponsors Carnegie Libraries, the Pittsburgh International Airport and the City of Pittsburgh for supporting regional artists. read more
04.09.2024 Canadian singer-songwriter Gracie Ella conveys a beautiful combination of soulful vocals, vulnerable songwriting, and a wide array of diverse influences in her music. Through her art, the Toronto, ON native wants more than anything to comfort listeners. On her latest single, "Skin, " Ella shares how confident she has become with herself and how she doesn't desire anything but her own independence and invincibility. read more 02.09.2024 On Friday September 13, The Linwood Taylor Band, with special guest Sol Roots, perform at the intimate concert hall and supper club, The Room at Cedar Grove, which is located on Delaware's scenic coast. The Room at Cedar Grove regularly showcases some of the very best in Mid Atlantic area blues, jazz, and rock talent. read more 07.08.2024 The Wheaton Arts & Entertainment District, in Wheaton Maryland, has partnered with the iconic Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center for this year's TGIF Summer Concert Series, offering after-work celebrations on Friday evenings. The weekly series, which continues through Aug. 30, will feature bands ranging from The Nighthawks, Sol Roots, Chopteeth, and Gordon Sterling and The People. read more  17.06.2024 On Thursday June 13, the Sol Roots Band with guest Vince Evans perform a special concert of dynamic funk, heartfelt jazz, and deep blues and soul, at JV's Music Room located in Northern Virginia. Hailed as a fierce guitarist and soulful vocalist, Sol Roots has toured around the world with many musical legends. His monthly residency concerts at the legendary JV's Music Room in Northern Virginia feature an array of special guest appearances of world-class performers. For the month of June 2024, the special guest will be the powerful keyboardist and vocalist Vince Evans. read more
18.09.2024 The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to lift off its 2024-25 concert season on Saturday September 21st with the dynamic Trinidadian trumpeter, composer and percussionist, Etienne Charles. Etienne Charles has traveled the world, seeking connections and differences between the rhythms and forms of Caribbean folkloric music. His band, Creole Soul, is his musical laboratory. read more 06.09.2024 The seamstress of worlds and words, Carmen Souza, returns with her eleventh album Port'Inglęs (English Port). This Arts Council England supported album releases through Galileo Music Communication on 27th September 2024, with the launch concert taking place on 30th November at London's Crazy Coqs. read more 06.09.2024 On Friday, August 23, 2024, Apollo Chamber Players releases their seventh album, Trace of Time, as a digital release on Azica Records. In this project featuring works by Héctor Del Curto, Julia Smith, Jessie Montgomery, Adolphus Hailstork, Astor Piazzolla and Agustín Bardi, Apollo brings together a diverse patchwork of cultural stories seen partly through the lens of how they linger in our memories as time passes. read more 20.08.2024 Transylvanian Dance takes as its starting point transcriptions of folk songs and dance tunes collected by Béla Bartók a century ago. For Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri, these pieces have become "springboards and sources of melodic material" for performances "that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them…" read more
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